dampness

Definition

Moderate humidity; moisture; moistness; the state or quality of being damp.

Etymology

From damp + -ness.

Example Sentences

• "With 3,600 h.p. underfoot, acceleration was reasonably brisk, but the flickering wheel-slip indicator light showed the prudence of not putting full power through the traction motors while there were traces of early-morning dampness on the rails."
• "They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease."
• "The dampness in the writing paper caused the ink to spread and smudge."